Snowplow



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SNUWPLOW.

APPLICATION FILED DECJ23, i918.

Patented July (i, 1920,

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ing had to the accompanying .ANTHONY FBICKER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SNOWPLOW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented July 6,1920.

Application led December 23, 1918. Serial No. 268.034.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY FRTCKER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Cleveland, in the county. of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Snowplows, of which the following is a description, reference bedrawings, which are a part of this specification.

The invention relates to snow plows and is fully described and explained in the specication and shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a side view of the device embodying the invention; Fig 2 is a plan View thereof; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. n i

One of the features of this invention is the provision for attaching the plow to an automobile truckv 4 or other motor driven vehicle and more particularly to the front j axle 5 thereof.

The snow plow consists of three sets of plow blades hereinafter described, and supporting means for the blades. t

The supporting meansV consists of a pair of beams`6 which are pivotally connected at their inner ends to the axle 5 by means of bearing members 7 mounted on said' axle and secured to said beams in any-` suitable manner as by bolts 8 and said beams are supported at their outer ends upon runners -9 to whichsaid beams are connected by means of vertically adjustable connections, each consisting of a member 10 having a right and a left handed screw threaded end and carrying a hand wheel 11, one of the threaded ends engaging in a bore in a member 12 pivotally secured by a pin 13 to the beam and the other threaded end engaging in a bore in a base bracket 14 secured to the runner so that a rotation of the member 10 by the wheel 11 will cause movement of the member 12 toward or away from the bracket 14.

The base: board 15 ofthe plow carries brackets -16 which are pivotally connected to the ends of the beams 6 by pins 17 and this base board is adapted to be tipped about this pivotal support and secured in different positions of angular adjustment by means of vertically adjustable connections between the rear end of the board and said beams. Each connection consists of a member 18 having a right land a left handed screw threaded v'end andcarrying a handwheel 19,

one of the threaded ends engaging in a bore in a member 20'pivotally secured to a pin 21 carried by the beam and the other threaded end engaging in a bore in a member 22 pivotally secured to a bracket 24,.

- iect the snow outwardly and separated from each other at their front edges 31` the front portion of these blades being in the path of the snow passing between the blades 26.

The rear set of blades 28 consists of a pair of metal plates curved so as to deflect the snow outwardly and meeting each other at their front edges 32, the front portion of these blades being in the path of snow passing between the blades 27.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that the snow covering the area in front of the plow is split up by ,contact with the various blades, that is, the front sides of the blades 26 deflect a portion of the snow to the sides, another portion'is deflected to the sides between the blades 26 and 27 and another portion is deflected to the sides between the blades 27 and 28. Thus the snow is split up into a number of portions which are acted upon by the different plow sections so that the snow may be more readily handled and with less power than with the usual type of scoop or single blade plow.

What I claim as my invention is:

k1. A sndw plow comprising a base board, a pair of front blades separated from each other and curved outwardly, an intermediate set of blades se arated from each other and curved outwar ly, the forward portions of this intermediate set being disposed in the path of the snow passin0r through the space between the separated front blades, a rear set of blades meeting each other at the front edges, the forward lportions of this rear set of blades being disposed in the path of the snow passing through the space between tlie separated intermediate blades, and jack screw means adjustably' supporting the front and rear of the plow, whereby the' 10 the forward end of the snpporting member,

a snow plow including a base board, a

pivotal connection between the forward portion of the base board and the forward end of theosupporting member, and means for adjustabl supporting the rear portion of the base oard from said supporting members and including a jack screw turn buckle having one end pivotally connected with the supporting member and its other end Pimm allg7 connected with the base board.

n testimony whereof I aiiX m si nature.

ANTHONY F IC ER. 

